Health-worker migration, commonly called" medical brain drain", refers to the mass
migration of trained and skilled health professionals (doctors, nurses, midwives) from low …

Universal health coverage (UHC) is at the center of current efforts to strengthen health
systems and improve the level and distribution of health and health services. This document …

Gillian Brock develops a viable cosmopolitan model of global justice that takes seriously the
equal moral worth of persons, yet leaves scope for defensible forms of nationalism and for …

Background Human rights are best protected, promoted and guaranteed when they can
compel binding and enforceability duty. One prominent criticism of category of human rights …

There is a large treatment gap for mental health care in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs), with the majority of people with mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) …

This article tracks the shifting place of the international right to health, and human rights-
based approaches to health, in the scholarly literature and United Nations (UN). From 1993 …

Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) was intended to serve at the forefront of
efforts to realize human rights to advance global health, and yet this promise of a rights …

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a
history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins in gay and anti-apartheid activism to …

India's new mental health legislation, the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, was commenced on
29 May 2018 and seeks explicitly to comply with the United Nations Convention on the …

This report by the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage
addresses how countries can make fair progress towards the goal of universal coverage. It …